[Dovecot] v2.1 memory usage

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-11-12 2:31 PM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
> Openssl is a *massive* project and I'm unsure that gnutls is much 
> smaller... We should assume that both are quite scary from a 
> "security" point of view.  Licensing is the main thing which divides 
> them, gnutls is stated as GPL compatible (however, the nominal 
> incompatibility of openssl seems difficult to understand?)
>
> OpenVPN integrated with PolarSSL and got Dutch government official 
> approval for the combined package.  I think elsewhere it's stated that 
> openssl would not have been approved because something like the 
> codebase was too large to inspect and sign off
>     http://polarssl.org/news?item=0132
>
> I haven't worked with PolarSSL, so no idea, but it's massively smaller 
> codebase is likely attractive if you are the kind of person who 
> actually *does* security audits on the software you run in secure 
> situations.
>
> Openssl is just a complete swiss army knife of tools!

Very interesting... I'd certainly be interested in switching to it, as 
long as the most common tools are supported

Is it considered a drop in replacement for OpenSSL?

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Best regards,

Charles